Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bigeard first made a name for himself as a sergeant in 1940 when he held out in a Vosges dugout five days after the rest of the army had surrendered to the Nazis. After escaping from a German prison camp, he joined De Gaulle, eventually took charge of the resistance in the Ariège department in the south of France. At Dienbienphu, in 1954, he characteristically fought until his last round was spent, then walked out of his bunker to surrender with his hands stuffed ostentatiously and contemptuously in his pockets...
Though Frenchmen may not intend it that way, whenever they flout world opinion, German stock tends to go up. This truism was evident in London last week. The 20th century reflex is to think of Britons and Germans as mortal enemies, and Britons and French as fond allies. But before the two World Wars, the opposite was more often the case. As late as the end of the 19th century, Britain's obvious partner in trade, diplomacy and royal bedrooms was Germany. "The natural alliance," said Salisbury's Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain on Nov. 30, 1899, "is between...
Last week Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrived in London to return Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's visit to West Germany. On the visit's eve, the two countries settled their longstanding and awkward dispute over German financing of the British army on the Rhine (the British argue that until wealthy West Germany gets its own NATO army, it should help pay the costs of others who protect it). To settle the issue, the British retreated farther than the Germans. They promised to maintain about 50,000 troops on the Rhine till 1961, and instead of the $132 million...
...relaxed and cordial atmosphere created by these concessions, Prime Minister Macmillan and his aides made a pitch for German help against France. Britain has refused to join the six-nation, tariff-free European Common Market, but does not want to be shut out of a probable market of 165 million people. Britain would like to be an affiliate (along with ten other European nations) in a looser free-trade area, but as a price for letting the British in, France demands tariff preference throughout the British Commonwealth. Adenauer agreed to help...
After dining with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, the place where Kaiser Wilhelm II visited his cousin George V in 1910, Adenauer presented an $11,900 check to the fund for rebuilding Coventry Cathedral, which German bombers destroyed in a 1940 raid. After three glowing days Adenauer returned to Germany, where this week he will play host to Russia's No. 2 man, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, whose visit to Bonn to sign the new Russia-West Germany trade pact is further evidence of West Germany's heightened prestige...